Category: UW Experts in the News

Quoted: Matthew H. Edney, director of the History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Susan B. Millar, a senior scientist in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison who studies teaching in science and engineering.

WASHINGTON â?? Despite warnings that America’s dogs are being vaccinated too much and too often, most veterinarians continue the practice as a way to keep clients coming in the door, according to a leading animal immunologist.
Vaccines for rabies and three other major canine diseases â?? distemper, canine adenovirus-2 and canine parvovirus â?? should be given no more often than once every three years, said Ronald Schultz, a veterinary immunologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Scott Craven, a University of Wisconsin wildlife ecologist.

Quoted: Ed Jesse, a dairy and agriculture policy economist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

Washington-based Child Trends, in a research brief published in May using the National Center for Education Statistics’ Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, finds that 52 percent of nonmarital births are to cohabiting couples. The University of Wisconsin’s Center for Demography and Ecology reached the same conclusion in a working paper it expects to publish this summer after analyzing data from the National Center for Health Statistics’ National Survey of Family Growth.

Mentions Jamie Peck, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has written that the pursuit of the creative class “has become a cliche of contemporary urban regeneration.”

Q. There was a lot of talk earlier this summer about the 17-year cicadas making an appearance in southern Wisconsin. We didn’t see anything in the Madison area. What happened?

A. “If you got to the right spot, it was like a science fiction movie,” said UW-Madison entomologist Phil Pellitteri, who witnessed the creature feature in June at the Big Foot Beach State Park area near Lake Geneva.

Quoted: Frank Greer, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Deborah Carr, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Rutgers University

Quoted: Steve Meili, a UW-Madison law professor and director of the Consumer Law Litigation Clinic.

Quoted: Tom O’Guinn, executive director of the Center for Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business.

Quoted: Steve Meili, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor and director of the Consumer Law Litigation Clinic.

Quoted: Kent Peterson, a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Quoted: Dr. Christopher Olsen, a professor of veterinary medicine and an influenza researcher at the University of Wisconsin

Quoted: Ann Hoyt, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied cooperatives.

Quoted: Ann Hoyt, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has studied cooperatives.

Quoted: John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, a University of Wisconsin anthropologist and author of “Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers,” said the pilots’ private writings and other evidence show that rather than stoic warriors, many were tortured souls, browbeaten and abused into flying to their deaths.

Quoted: Dr. Patrick E. McBride, professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist Pupa Gilbert, who co-authored a nacre study published in the June 29 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters. “We don’t know how to synthesize materials that are better than the sum of their parts.”

Quoted: Barry Orton, a professor of telecommunications at UW-Madison.

Quoted: Harry Brighouse, a British political philosopher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Kemal Karpat, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Harry Brighouse, a British political philosopher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has researched the relationship between education and liberalism, says schools have more pressing concerns than the promotion of patriotism.

Quoted: UW-Madison Law School Professor Peter Carstensen.

Quoted: Craig Fieschko, an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Quoted: Ken Goldstein, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: John Chadima, an associate athletic director at the University of Wisconsin.

Quoted: Barry Orton, professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Francois Ortalo-Magne, a professor of real estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s business school, and the author of a January survey for the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate.

Quoted: Kathleen B. Culver, a former reporter who teaches journalism ethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Blogging has come a long way since the practice gained popularity in the late 1990s, and several Madison-area people are showing the different facets — from an online diary to expert commentary to personal art gallery — of what blogs can be. The story references several UW-Madison-related blogs.

Quoted: Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin political science professor

Quoted: Donald Downs, professor of political science.

Quoted: Paul S. Boyer, an authority on prophecy belief in American culture and an emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, the apocalypse is an appealing idea because it promises salvation to a select group â?? all of whom share secret knowledge â?? and a world redeemed and delivered from evil.